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Ali Family Autism Truths #18 – Sometimes the Truth Hurts
My hand on D’s head in a rare moment of quiet cuddling.April 18, 2015 – Autism Awareness Month, Autism Truths #18We are winding down our Saturday, me sitting on my bed banging this post out, and D...
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Ali Family Autism Truths #19 – The Unattainable Truth
April 19, 2015 – Autism Awareness Month, Autism Truths #19I’ve seen my fair share of hijab (headscarf) “fat suit” stories – you know, the ones where a woman decides she’ll wear a hijab for a month to...
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Ali Family Autism Truths #20 – To Just Be Present
D lying in my lap.April 20, 2015, Autism Awareness Month, Autism Truths #20He grows sleepy, trying to find a comfortable position in the uncomfortable waiting-room chair as the medicine takes it’s...
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Ali Family Autism Truths #22 – The Double Standards
D, A and H, about two years ago.April 22, 2015 – Autism Awareness Month, Autism Truths #22At dinnertime this evening, my seven-year-old son H laid a good one one me. His older brother D, who had been...
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Ali Family Autism Truths #23 – What is God’s Truth in All This?
April 23, 2015 — Autism Awareness Month, Autism Truths #23It seems like we are always living waiting for the other shoe to drop. Even when things are relatively smooth and good, we wait, wondering when...
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Ali Family Autism Truths #26 – What We Are Afraid to Say Out Loud
D swinging with all his might.April 26, 2015 – Autism Awareness Month, Autism Truths #26Sometimes it all feels so fragile — life held together by bits of tape and pieces of string, with prayers and...
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Ali Family Autism Truths #27 – The Friends We Make Along the Way
D and his friends on his last birthday.April 27, 2015, Autism Awareness Month, Autism Truths #27At a birthday party we attended yesterday, the theme was superheroes. The kids were running around in...
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Ali Family Autism Truths #28 – You Can’t Walk Away
D, chilling on the sofa before bedtime.April 28, 2015 – Autism Awareness Month, Autism Truths #28I was face-timing with my daughter tonight, helping her complete an English assignment. She and the her...
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Ali Family Autism Truths #29 – The Way to the Unknown Future
April 29, 2015 – Autism Awareness Month, Autism Truths #29Most mornings are a mad rush of arms and legs, cereal bowls, packed lunches, backpacks and last minute signing of forms. Once I get the younger...
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Ali Family Autism Truths #30 – We Will Live Truthfully
April 30, 2015 – Autism Awareness Month, Autism Truths #30Why should you care? Really, why should you care? There is an earthquake that has devastated Nepal causing the deaths of nearly 4,000 people....
View ArticleOn Government Ineptness, Autism and Passport Sagas
This is Day 21 of the Ali Family #AutismTruths – April 21, 2017 Dear Government Agencies – Federal, State and Local, With as much frustration as I’m about to unload, let me start with a positive – as a...
View ArticleMake His a Life of Ease
This is Day 22 of the Ali Family #AutismTruths – April 22, 2017 Dear God, It seems almost silly to write to you when you know my inner most secrets before even I realize them. But this all seems like a...
View ArticleAs Moms, Do We Care for Ourselves?
This is Day 23 of the Ali Family #AutismTruths – April 23, 2017 Dear Moms, Particularly Muslim Moms of Color, Last night I took the boys and went to the home of a friend, who has two sons on opposite...
View ArticlePiecing Together the Puzzle of the Future – As a Family
This is Day 24 of the Ali Family #AutismTruths – April 24, 2017 Dear Family, I came home from a long medical appointment the other day and walked into the house. D and his Baba were sitting on the...
View ArticleDear Siblings – What is Your Role in our Family Autism Future?
This is Day 25 of the Ali Family #AutismTruths – April 25, 2017 Dear A and H and other autism siblings, Last night I was at a training seminar to learn about how to apply for SSI (supplemental security...
View ArticleFinding Room for it All in Autism Land
This is Day 26 of the Ali Family #AutismTruths – April 26, 2017 Dear World: At the beginning of April, on Day One, I wrote this: Here’s a question – how do you find that balance or place for the...
View ArticleMarriage, Autism Truths and the Ties that Bind
This is Day 27 of the Ali Family #AutismTruths – April 27, 2017 Dear Husband and Collective Spouses, This morning I was talking to my niece – the one who is newly married to a young gentleman who is...
View ArticleThe Language of Brothers in Autism Land
This is Day 28 of the Ali Family #AutismTruths – April 28, 2017. Our son, nine-year-old H wrote this letter to his 16-year-old brother, D bhai. Dear D Bhai, When I first realized you were different, I...
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This is Day 29 of the Ali Family #AutismTruths – April 29, 2017 Dear Friends, The morning yes was spent at H’s elementary school for field day, volunteering at the frisbee-throwing station. Cute...
View ArticleRisk Taking and Autism Truths
This is Day 30 of the Ali Family #AutismTruths – April 30, 2017. Last post of the series. Dear Readers: A story: The kids’ activities for the day were clear to me when I woke up: H had Islamic Sunday...
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